Spoiler de Dawn of the Empire (108/108)

 

Personalidades

 

Brotherhood (1)

 

Shinsei

1F / 15C

–HR / 0G / 5PH

Monk • Mentor of the Kami • Double Chi • Unique. You must bow five cards you control as an additional cost of playing Shinsei. Shinsei need not bow to cast Kihos. Reaction: When paying for a Thunder Persoanlity, bow this card: Reduce the Thunder’s Gold cost to 1. Open: Once per turn, even if this card is bowed, target a Kami Personality. Bow him.

 

Crab (4)

 

Hida

14F / 8C

–HR / 0G / 5PH

Crab Clan Kami • Samurai • Double Chi • Yu 20 • Unique • Loyal • Will not enter play normally unless another player has more than 10 Family Honor. Battle: If Hida is face-up in one of your Provinces, you are the Defender, and the current attacking army contains a unit, bring Hida into play in your army in the current battle. Battle: Target an attacking unit. Destroy it. “I did not choose this world, but I will protect it.”

 

Hida Atarasi (Diamond y Lotus)

10F / 5C

0HR / 15G / 3PH

Crab Clan Thunder • Samurai • Disciple of the Kami • Yu 12 • Experienced 7 • Unique • Loyal. May overlay any Crab Clan Samurai you control. Reaction: Before Atarasi is destroyed other than as a cost or effect of a card you own, remove him from the game: Even if Atarasi is bowed, gain an additional Attack Phase after your next Dynasty Phase.

 

Hiruma (Diamond y Lotus)

5F / 4C

0HR / 11G / 4PH

Crab Clan Samurai • Disciple of the Kami • Scout • Unique • Loyal. Battle: Discard a card: Once per battle, Ranged 5 Attack. Battle: Target a Personality in your home not targeted by Hiruma this turn. Move him into Hiruma’s battlefield. Battle: Target a Personality you control in the current battle not targeted by Hiruma this turn. Move him home.

 

Kaiu Norio (Diamond y Lotus)

4F / 2C

–HR / 7G / 2PH

Crab Clan Samurai • Siege. Norio has +1F/+1C while he has a Follower. Reaction: After Norio enters play, bow him: Norio may not be targeted by cards other players own until the start of your next turn. Of all the weapons Kaiu has crafted, be most wary of his sons.

 

Crane (4)

 

Doji

8F / 14C

10HR / 0G / 6PH

Crane Clan Kami • Samurai • Courtier • Double Chi • Unique • Loyal Will not enter play unless you have taken at least three Political actions this turn. While you control Doji, cards focused by Personalities you control return to your hand instead of being discarded when the duel ends. Battle: Once per target per battle, target an attacking unit. Move it home bowed.

 

Doji Hayaku (Diamond y Lotus)

3F / 4C

0HR / 9G / 4PH

Crane Clan Samurai • Daidoji Family Founder • Harrier. When paying for Hayaku, you may reduce his Gold cost by 2 and permanently give him –2 Personal Honor. Battle: Once per battle, target an opposing card. Give it a Force penalty equal to Hayaku’s Personal Honor. Reaction: Before Hayaku is destroyed: Produce a ranged attack with a strength equal to Hayaku’s Personal Honor.

 

Doji Konishiko (Diamond y Lotus)

3F / 5C

5HR / 12G / 4PH

Crane Clan Thunder • Courtier • Disciple of the Kami • Experienced 7 • Unique • Loyal. May overlay any Crane Clan Courtier you control. Reaction: After Konishiko enters play or overlays: Once per game, search your hand and discard pile for a Political Action card. Permanently give her one of its Limited or Open actions; she may take the action once per turn and bows as an additional effect. Remove the card from the game.

 

Kakita (Diamond y Lotus)

4F / 6C

10HR / 12G / 5PH

Crane Clan Samurai • Disciple of the Kami • Duelist • Unique • Loyal. Personalities must focus at least once per duel if able. After each duel, the winner draws as many cards as he focused. Before the first focus or strike of a duel Kakita is in, set his Chi to the other Personality’s Chi. The other Personality loses Double Chi. Kakita may only focus once, but with one to three cards. These effects end when the duel ends.

 

Dragon (4)

 

Mirumoto (Diamond y Lotus)

5F / 6C

8HR / 13G / 4PH

Dragon Clan Thunder • Samurai • Duelist • Disciple of the Kami • Experienced 7 • Unique • Loyal. May overlay any Dragon Clan Samurai you control. After each duel, the winner draws a card. Before the first focus or strike of a duel Mirumoto is in, set his Chi to the other Personality’s Chi. The other Personality loses Double Chi. Mirumoto focuses first, with 1 or 2 cards, and must focus if able. These effects end when the duel ends.

 

Mirumoto Hojatsu (Diamond y Lotus)

4F / 6C

5HR / 12G / 4PH

Dragon Clan Samurai • Disciple of the Kami • Duelist • Unique. Limited: Once per turn, search your Fate deck for a Weapon. Show it. Put it in your hand. Battle: Bow a Weapon you control: Once per turn, target a Personality opposing it. The Personality’s controller targets a Personality in the Weapon’s army. The first Personality issues an unrefusable challenge to the second.

 

Togashi

10F / 13C

4HR / 0G / 5PH

Dragon Clan Kami • Creature • Samurai • Shugenja • Cavalry • Unique • Loyal • Will not enter play unless you brought a Black Scroll or Ring into play this turn. Limited: Once per turn, targte a Personality you control. Search your deck for a Black Scroll. Attach it to the Personality, ignoring costs. Limited: Once per turn, target a Ring you control. Put it in your hand. Play a different Ring from your hand.

 

Togashi Kaiteru (Diamond y Lotus)

3F / 4C

4HR / 7G / 2PH

Dragon Clan Wanderer • Monk • Tattooed. Reaction: After he enters a duel, bow a Monk Personality you control: If Kaiteru has no Weapons, give him +2F/+1C. If this is done during a battle, these bonuses last until the battle ends. “The final lesson reveals that all lessons are meaningless.”

 

Lion (4)

 

Akodo

13F / 12C

10HR / 0G / 5PH

Lion Clan Kami • Samurai • Double Chi • Tactician • Unique • Loyal • Will not enter play normally. Akodo may perform any number of Tactical actions per battle, once per printed action. After each Tactical action Akodo Performs, give +2F to all Personalities in his army. Battle: If Akodo is face-up in one of your Provinces and your army has a total Force of at least 10, bring Akodo into play in your army.

 

Akodo Mirotai (Diamond y Lotus)

3F / 3C

3HR / 8G / 2PH

Lion Clan Samurai • General • Tactician. Limited: Once per turn, give Mirotai a 2F Follower token. Mirotai loses the Tactician trait. The Emperor commanded that all unaligned tribes be driven from his Empire. The Lion were eager to oblige.

 

Ikoma (Diamond y Lotus)

5F / 5C

7HR / 12G / 3PH

Lion Clan Samurai • Disciple of the Kami • Tactician • Unique • Loyal. Battle: If Ikoma’s army has less total Force and fewer units than the opposing army, target an opposing Follower or an opposing Personality with no Followers. Destroy the target. “There always comes a time to put honor aside.”

 

Matsu (Diamond y Lotus)

9F / 5C

6HR / 14G / 4PH

Lion Clan Thunder • Samurai • Disciple of the Kami • Experienced 7 • Unique • Loyal. May overlay any Lion Clan Samurai you control. Reaction: After a non-Unique Personality assigns to a defending army opposing Matsu: Once per Attack Phase, target the Personality. Bow him. She loves Akodo dearly, but she will be no man’s bride.

 

Mantis (3)

 

Kaimetsu-Uo (Diamond y Lotus)

6F / 5C

2HR / 12G / 2PH

Mantis Clan Founder • Samurai • Naval • Descendant of the Kami • Unique • Loyal. After the first time this game Kaimetsu-Uo enters play from a Province, gain a Province to the left of your leftmost Province. “I will carve my future from the heart of destiny. We are the Mantis Clan, now and forever.”

 

Kindari (Diamond y Lotus)

4F / 3C

0HR / 8G / 1PH

Mantis Clan Samurai • Naval. Battle: Once per battle, target an opposing non-Naval unit. Move it home bowed. If it moves, bow Kindari. “The courage of a Lion and the strength of a Crab? Perhaps the brashness of a Lion and the stubbornness of a Crab. Either way, we are not enemies to make.”

 

Unmei (Diamond y Lotus)

2F / 3C

–HR / 8G / 1PH

Mantis Clan Shapeshifter • Creature • Spirit • Unique. Unmei has each of the following traits while you control a Mantis Clan Personality with the same trait: Samurai, Shugenja, Courtier, Bushi, Scout, Cavalry, Tactician, Double Chi, Duelist, Naval. While Unmei is a Samurai, it has +3F. While Unmei is a Shugenja, it has “Elemental Battle: Bow this card: Ranged 5 Attack.”

 

Naga (1)

 

Tashrak (Diamond y Lotus)

*F / *C

–HR / 7G / 0PH

Naga Abomination • Nonhuman • Unique. Tashrak’s printed Force equals the number of non-Naga Personalities other players control. Tashrak’s printed Chi equals the number of Forests you control, plus 2. “An ancient people turn in their sleep. Something has awakened in the forest, and it feeds on Fu Leng’s army.” –Togashi

 

Phoenix (4)

 

Asako Moharu (Diamond y Lotus)

2F / 4C

6HR / 8G / 3PH

Phoenix Clan Air Shugenja. Elemental Open: Bow this card: Target a non-Personality card you control. Straighten it. Until the end of the turn, neither Moharu nor that card may straighten. The deaths of Shiba and Isawa drove a rift that would not heal between the Asako and the Isawa.

 

Asako Yogo (Diamond y Lotus)

4F / 5C

4HR / 12G / 2PH

Phoenix Clan General • Fire Shugenja • Disciple of the Kami • Unique • Loyal. Elemental Battle: Once per battle, Ranged 4 Attack. Elemental Reaction: After the resolution of an action you took that produced a ranged attack, or issued a challenge, against a Personality at Asako Yogo’s battlefield, discard a card. Target the player who controlled the Personality. He discards two cards.

 

Isawa (Diamond y Lotus)

6F / 5C

6HR / 14G / 3PH

Phoenix Clan Thunder • Void Shugenja • Disciple of the Kami • Experienced 7 • Unique • Loyal. May overlay any Phoenix Clan Shugenja you control. Isawa may cast Spells in your hand as if they were attached to him, except those whose costs would remove the Spell from play. Discard any Spell that he casts this way, after it resolves.

 

Shiba

10F / 10C

6HR / 0G / 5PH

Phoenix Clan Kami • Samurai • Double Chi • Unique • Loyal You must bow three Phoenix Clan Shugenja you control as an additional cost of playing Shiba. You may play Follower, Item, and Spell cards from your discard pile as if they were in your hand. Limited: Once per turn, target an Honorable Dead Personality in your discard pile. Put him into play, ignoring costs and restrictions.

 

Ratling  (3)

 

A’tck (Diamond y Lotus)

5F / 3C

HR / 7G / 2PH

Ratling Liutenant • Bushi • Creature • Unique. Open: Target a Ratling Personality. Give him a Tribe trait that appears on another face-up Ratling in the game. “The Dark Kami destroy our world... Pups afraid Tomorrow hound Nezumi forever. Nothing I say chase fear away.”

 

D’nir’ch (Diamond y Lotus)

3F / 3C

HR / 6G / 1PH

Ratling • Creature. Battle: Pay 2 Gold: Target a Ratling Personality at D’nir’ch’s battlefield. Give him a +1F/+1C Weapon Item token. “Heaven fall, destroy everything. Others run, but this our land until Tomorrow take it.”

 

Kan’chek (Diamond y Lotus)

3F / 3C

HR / 6G / 2PH

Ratling Shugenja • Creature • Unique. Kan’chek may cast Kihos in any discard pile as if they were in your hand. Kan’chek may cast Spells in any discard pile as if they were attached to him, except those whose costs would remove the Spell from play. Remove any card that he casts these ways from the game, after it resolves. “Run to the shadows. Run into Dream.”

 

Scorpion (4)

 

Bayushi

11F / 11C

–HR / 0G / 4PH

Scorpion Clan Kami • Samurai • Courtier • Unique • Loyal • Will not enter play unless two non-Shadowlands cards you own created Honor losses this turn. Bayushi need not bow to perform Political Actions. Political Limited: Once per turn, search your Fate deck for a Political Action card. Show it. Put it in your hand. Limited: Permanently reduce Bayushi’s Chi by at least 1: Target a Personality. Reduce his Chi by the same amount.

 

Bayushi Nissho (Diamond y Lotus)

3F / 4C

–HR / 7G / 1PH

Scorpion Clan Samurai. Battle: Once per battle, target a Follower or Item at a battlefield and a Personality controlled by that card’s controller. Move the Follower or Item to that Personality. You may then straighten the Follower or Item. Bayushi knew his clan’s purpose before the Emperor’s throne was warm. He sought his followers in the Shadows.

 

Shosuro (Diamond y Lotus)

6F / 5C

–HR / 12G / 2PH

Scorpion Clan Thunder • Disciple of the Kami • Ninja • Experienced 7 • Unique • Loyal. May overlay any Scorpion Clan Personality you control. Reaction: After Shosuro enters play or overlays: Target a player. Discard all cards from his Provinces. Battle: Remove five cards in any one player’s discard pile from the game: Target a Ninja Personality you control and a location. Move the Ninja to the location.

 

Yogo (Diamond y Lotus)

4F / 5C

–HR / 15G / 2PH

Scorpion Clan Fire Shugenja • Disciple of the Kami • Accursed • Experienced Asako Yogo • Unique. Limited: Once per turn, target a Personality with less Chi than Yogo. Straighten the Personality. Battle: Shuffle Yogo into your decks from the current battle: Search your Provinces and deck for any number of Personalities with a total Gold cost less than Yogo’s. Bring them into play in your army, ignoring costs.

 

Unicorn (4)

 

Ide (Diamond y Lotus)

5F / 5C

4HR / 12G / 3PH

Unicorn Clan Samurai • Courtier • Disciple of the Kami • Cavalry • Unique • Loyal. Political Reaction: After a Political action is taken by a player who has less total Force among all units in his home than you have among units in your home: Once per turn, cancel the Action. Limited: Once per turn, search your discard pile for an Item Ide has not retrieved this game. Put it in your hand.

 

Otaku (Diamond y Lotus)

6F / 5C

4HR / 14G / 4PH

Unicorn Clan Thunder • Disciple of the Kami • Battle Maiden • Samurai • Cavalry • Experienced 7 • Unique • Loyal • May overlay any Unicorn Clan Samurai you control. Otaku has +3F while attacking. Reaction: After a card you control in the current battle is destroyed, bowed, or moved home by a card another player owns: Once per battle, target a card opposing Otaku. Apply the same effect to it.

 

Shinjo

12F / 8C

0HR / 0G / 5PH

Unicorn Clan Kami • Samurai • Cavalry • Double Chi • Unique • Loyal. Will not enter play normally. Units you control do not bow from battle resolution. Battle: If Shinjo is face-up in one of your Provinces, you are the Attacker, and there is a defending unit in the current battle, bring Shinjo into play in your army.

 

Shinjo Bairezu (Diamond y Lotus)

3F / 3C

0HR / 10G / 2PH

Unicorn Clan Samurai • Cavalry. Bairezu has +2F while attacking. Battle: Bow Bairezu: Once per attack, if Bairezu is not in the current battle and has not been in any battle during its resolution this Attack Phase, move him to the current battlefield. If he opposes no Cavalry cards, straighten him. He may produce a Ranged 3 Attack. “Always seek the next horizon.” –Shinjo

 

Shadowlands (4)

 

Fu Leng

15F / 15C

–HR / 0G / 0PH

Shadowlands Kami • Double Chi • Unique. Will only join a Shadowlands player. Has a minimum Chi of 1. Will not enter play unless at least two Personalities were destroyed or gained the Shadowlands trait this turn. Limited: Once per turn per target, target a dead Personality in any discard pile. Put the Personality into play under your control, ignoring costs and restrictions. Permanently give him Undead and Shadowlands.

 

Mutsuhito (Diamond y Lotus)

5F / 5C

–HR / 12G / 0PH

Shadowlands Bushi • Unique Lose 5 Honor. Reaction: After Mutsuhito enters play from a Province: Target a dead Personality in your discard pile. Bring him into play, ignoring costs and restrictions. “If I must bow to a Kami, let it be the strongest.”

 

Oni no Hatsu Suru (Diamond y Lotus)

4F / 3C

–HR / 7G / 0PH

Oni • Nonhuman • Shadowlands Lose 5 Honor. Reaction: After Oni no Hatsu Suru is destroyed by a card another player owns, remove the Oni from the game: Lose 4 Honor. Create two 2F/2C Nonhuman Shadowlands Oni Personality cards in your home or in the army the Oni was destroyed in.

 

The First Oni (Diamond y Lotus)

7F / 5C

–HR / 10G / 0PH

Shadowlands • Nonhuman • Disciple of the Kami • Inexperienced • Unique • May not attach Items. Lose 10 Honor. This loss may not be copied or modified. Limited: Once pert urn, target an unbowed Personality you do not control. Lose 5 Honor. Declare an additional Attack Phase, creating a battlefield not associated with any Province. The First Oni assigns to attack there. The target assigns to defend there. After the Attack Phase, resume the Action Phase.

 

Unaligned (5)

 

Hantei

14F / 14C

0HR / 0G / 6PH

Unaligned Kami • First Emperor • Samurai • Courtier • Cavalry • Double Chi • Naval • Tactician • Unique. Will not enter play unless a Kami Personality is in play. Reduce the Gold cost of cards attaching to Hantei to 0. Reaction: After a Political Action is taken: cancel it. Limited: Once per turn, target a non-Kami Personality. Gain permanent control of the target.

 

Hantei Genji

5F / 5C

0HR / 8G / 5PH

Unaligned Emperor • Disciple of the Kami • Samurai • Courtier • Double Chi • Unique. You must discard the Imperial Favor or bow Personalities and Followers you control with more than 12 total Force as an additional cost of playing Hantei Genji. Political Limited: Bow Genji: Target a face-up Personality in a Province. Bring the Personality into play controlled by the Province’s player, ignoring costs and restrictions.

 

Muhomono (Diamond y Lotus)

5F / 3C

–HR / 8G / 2PH

Unaligned Bushi • Ogre • Nonhuman. Will not join a Shadowlands player. Reaction: After Muhomono enters play from a Province: You may search your Dynasty deck for an Ogre and put it face-up in the Province instead of filing it normally. You may search your Fate deck for an Ogre, show it, and put it in your hand.

 

P’an Ku (Diamond y Lotus)

0F / 1C

–HR / 9G / 0PH

Unaligned Mad Dragon • Creature • Unique. Open: Once per turn, target another Personality. Permanently copy the target’s printed Force. Open: Once per turn, target another Personality. Permanently copy the target’s printed Chi. Open: Once per turn, target a non-Dragon Personality. Copy one of the target’s abilities or boldface traits until the next time this ability is used.

 

Tora (Diamond y Lotus)

0F / 3C

–HR / 10G / 0PH

Unaligned • Unique. Open: Remove Tora from the game and pay Gold equal to the target’s Gold cost: If this is the Action Phase, target a Personality controlled by the active player. Lose 1 Honor. The active player may move one non-tojen card from the target to a Personality you control. If he does not, permanently gain control of the target. “Only fools resist the Kami openly. We must bide our time...”

 

Holdings (10)

 

Chamber of the Damned (Diamond y Lotus) Coste: 2. Shadowlands Lose 3 Honor. Bow this card: Produce 2 Gold. Battle: Bow this card and destroy an unbowed Holding you control and own: Target an opposed Personality you control. Lose 2 Honor. Attach a Shadowlands Follower token to the Personality. This Follower has a Force equal to the printed Gold cost of the destroyed Holding.

 

Family Library (Diamond y Lotus) Coste: 2. Bow this card: Produce 2 Gold. Limited: Destroy this card: Target a discarded Personality in your discard pile and a face-up card in one of your Provinces. Discard the face-up card and fill the Province with the Personality. “Remember everything. I shall require it upon my return.” –Isawa

 

Isawa Ariminhime (Diamond y Lotus) Coste: 2. Retainer • Spirit • Unique. Bow this card: Produce 2 Gold. Battle: If you are the Defender, once per turn, even if this card is bowed, target a unit you control in the current battle. Give the current Province a strength bonus equal to the unit’s total Force. Isawa’s sister now eternally guards the City of Sacrifice.

 

Seppun Hill (Diamond y Lotus) Coste: 4. Unique. Will not enter play unless your Family Honor is at least 4 points above your starting Family Honor. Bow this card: Produce 4 Gold. Limited: Bow this card: Gain 2 Honor. Each other player decides if he gains 1 Honor. The Kami first appeared here, and it shall ever be holy.

 

Shrine of Discussion (Diamond y Lotus) Coste: 2. Bow this card: Produce 2 Gold. Open: Destroy this card: Target a Personality. Permanently give him –2F/+2C and the Monk trait. “The Fortunes are divine, and the Tao worldly. Together, the two speak perfectly to every soul.” –Hantei Genji

 

Standing Stones (Diamond y Lotus) Coste: 2. Bow this card: Produce 2 Gold. Open: Once per turn, target a Troll or a non-Shadowlands Nonhuman card. Until the end of the turn, the card has +2F while opposed. “We were not the first to come here.” –Hantei the First

 

Temples of Gisei Toshi (Diamond y Lotus) Coste: 2. Unique. Bow this card: Produce 2 Gold. Limited: Bow this card: Name “Item,” “Follower,” or “Spell.” Look at the top 4 cards of your Fate deck. If any of them is of the named type, you may show it then put it in your hand. “Only the Children of the Earth are welcome here.” –Isawa

 

The First Dojo (Diamond y Lotus) Coste: 4. Unique. Bow this card: Produce 3 Gold. Open: Bow a Kami Personality or Clan Champion you control: Once per turn, even if this card is bowed, target up to three other Personalities you control. Straighten them. The Kami were born with many gifts. We must master ours.

 

The Tao (Diamond y Lotus) Coste: 2. Unique. Bow this card: Produce 2 Gold. Elemental Open: Bow this card: Once per turn, straighten all Rings. “Bring me pen and paper,” Shiba commanded eyes wide with wonder.

 

Yobanjin Fortress (Diamond y Lotus) Coste: 2. Bow this card: Produce 2 Gold. Battle: Bow this card: Create a 1F/1C Yobanjin Personality card in your army in the current battle. Remove this Personality from the game after the battle ends or after two more actions resolve. “Some who refused our rule forged petty kingdoms  in the north.” –Shinjo

 

Events (8)

 

Call of Thunder (Diamond y Lotus) The next Unique Personality you bring into play this game permanently gains the traits “May assign even if bowed. After each time this card assigns, you may straighten it.” “Fu Leng wields the powers of both heaven and hell. Only those who have also mastered both purity and corruption can defeat him. Only mortals.” –Shinsei

 

Fall From the Heavens (Diamond y Lotus) Beginning with you and proceeding once in turn order, each player may search his Fate deck for a Kami card, show it, and put it in his hand. The mortal realm is a jealous realm, and Onnotangu knew his children would never return. That would be punishment enough for their treachery.

 

Ki-Rin’s Exodus (Diamond y Lotus) This card remains in play in your home. Battle: Discard this card: Target any number of units you control in the current battle. Move them home. “Fu Leng has been defeated, but I take no joy in our victory. Perhaps there is a land where the Ki-Rin might find peace.” Shinjo

 

One Thousand Years of Peace (Diamond y Lotus) After the next time this game any player declares an attack, reduce the strength of each of his Provinces by 3 until the beginning of his next turn. “The crow returned from the Shadowlands, feathers black as pitch, but eyes clear with the wisdom it had gained. So began One Thousand Years of Peace.” –Hantei Genji

 

Rebirth of the Dark Kami (Diamond y Lotus) Target a dead Shadowlands Personality in your discard pile. You may destroy a Personality you control as a cost to reduce the target’s Gold cost to 0. Bring the target into play, paying all costs and ignoring restrictions. Jigoku enslaved Fu Leng, but he had mastered its power as well.

 

Test of the Kami (Diamond y Lotus) Target a Personality. Permanently give him the Kami trait. This card remains in play in your home. Open: Discard this card: Target a Kami Personality you control and a Personality another player controls; if used during a battle, these targets must oppose each other. The Kami Personality issues an unrefusable challenge to the other. When the last Akodo falls, so falls the last Hantei.

 

The Death of Ryoshun (Diamond y Lotus) This card remains in play in your home. Open: Discard this card: Name a card in play. Until the beginning of your next turn, actions on cards with that title may not be used. “Ten Kami fell from the sky. One fell to Jigoku, but only eight now walk the mortal realm. Let not the mortals sully Ryoshun’s memory by speaking his name. Let his grave be a place where only gods may enter.” –Hantei the First

 

The First Wedding (Diamond y Lotus) You may discard cards from your hand with a total Focus value of exactly 4. If you do, either draw 3 cards or target a player. If you target a player, he discards cards from his hand with a total Focus value of at least 4 if possible, or shows his hand if he cannot. Hantei searched all of Rokugan for his bride. In all the Empire, only one woman stirred the First Emperor’s heart –Mioko, the simple daughter of a Crane fisherman.

 

Regions (5)

 

Hole In the Sky (Diamond y Lotus) Unique. Reaction: After filling this Province with a face-down Dynasty card, bow your Stronghold: Target the card. Turn it face-up. Limited: Bow a Holding you control and destroy this card: Shuffle all face-up Dynasty cards in all players’ Provinces into their owners’ decks. From here, the Kami fell. From here, dragons match the earth.

 

Kaiu Fortress (Diamond y Lotus) Unique. Does not count against the number of Regions a Province can attach. Open: Pay 1 Gold. Even during battles where you have no units, target one of your Provinces. If the current strength is less than twice its base strength, give it +1 strength. “Trust in stone, my bushi. Stone dos not betray.” –Hida

 

Kanishimi Toshi (Diamond y Lotus) Unique. Limited: Bow your Stronghold and destroy this card: Target a Holding. Destroy it. Limited: Bow your Stronghold and destroy this card: Target a Stronghold. Bow it. I do not know what the Nexumi once called this place. Now they only call it Heaven’s Grave. It is a city of sorrow, a place where the living dread to go.

 

Mountains of Exile (Diamond y Lotus) Unique. Limited: Pay 3 Gold: Once per turn, target an Honorable Personality you control. Dishonor him. Give him a 1F Cavalry Yobanjin Follower token that gives its Personality the Cavalry trait. Battle: Once per turn, even during battles at other Provinces, give all Yobanjin cards you control +1F. “Those who will not obey will leave or be destroyed.” –Hantei the First

 

Sacred Arena (Diamond y Lotus) Unique. Battle: Destroy this card: Even during a battle at another Province, give each non-Unique Personality in the current battle –2F. Token Followers have a maximum Force of 0. These effects last until the battle ends. “The blood of gods has fallen here. It is no place for mortals to linger.” –Doji

 

Actions (14)

 

Ancient Battlefield (Diamond y Lotus) Coste: 2; Focus: 2. Delayed Terrain. Battle: You may target one of your Honorably Dead Personalities that was destroyed since the end of your last turn by a card another player owned or from having 0 Chi. Negate all non-permanent Chi penalties on him. Bring the Personality into play in your army, ignoring costs and restrictions.

 

Blood Calls to Blood (Diamond y Lotus) Coste: 0; Focus: 3. Reaction: Before a Personality you control in the current battle is destroyed by another player’s card or by battle or duel resolution: Target the Personality. Remove him from the game. Permanently increase the strength of the current Province by his printed Force or printed Chi. A Kami on his knees, an eternal promise.

 

Deeds of My Ancestors (Diamond y Lotus) Coste: 0; Focus: 2. Unorthodox Formation. Formed by three Samurai Personalities. Battle: Target a Samurai you control and a Personality opposing him, neither of which has been targeted by this card. The opposing Personality’s controller decides whether this card moves him home, or gives him –3F, or gives you Honor equal to your Samurai’s Personal Honor.

 

Enmity (Diamond y Lotus) Coste: 0; Focus: 4. Limited: Target a Personality you control and a Personality controlled by another player. Until your Personality leaves play, the other Personality gains +2C in duels against your Personality, and the first duel your Personality wins against the other gives you 4 additional Honor. “Let there be enmity between us, little man.” –Matsu

 

Extermination (Diamond y Lotus) Coste: 0; Focus: 2. Battle: Target an opposed Personality. Give him +3F. Battle: Target a Personality. Give him a Force bonus equal to the number of units opposing him.

 

Fallen Thunder (Diamond y Lotus) Coste: 2; Focus: 2. Kami Open: If this is the Action Phase, target a Unique Personality. Bow him. During his controller’s next Straighten Phase, the Personality may not straighten unless his controller discards a card. “We shall see what you can do with only six of your Thunders!”

 

I Can Swim (Diamond y Lotus) Coste: 0; Focus: 3. Political Limited: Target a Courtier Personality you control. Permanently give him “Political Reaction: Before losing Honor from a card you own, bow this Personality: Negate the loss. If it came from a Shadowlands card, this Personality permanently loses this ability.” “Pain is the liar’s only reward, Bayushi,” Shinsei said. And Bayushi understood.

 

Into the Darkness (Diamond y Lotus) Coste: 0; Focus: 3. Battle: Target a Unique card you control and up to two units opposing it. Move the opposing units home bowed. “My brother saved Shosuro when my pride forbade me to aid her,” Bayushi said in a choked voice, “even at the cost of his own life.”

 

Men of Cunning (Diamond y Lotus) Coste: 1; Focus: 1. Open: If this is the Action Phase, target a Personality. Lose 1 Honor. The Personality’s controller may discard a card. If he does, draw a card. Otherwise, bow the Personality. “I am not looking for men of honor, little one.”

 

Shinjo’s Courage (Diamond y Lotus) Coste: 2; Focus: 2. Costs 2 less Gold if you are a Unicorn Clan player. Battle: Target a Personality you control and either a Follower, or a Personality without Followers, opposing him. Reduce the opposing target’s Force by the difference in Personal Honor between the targets’ units’ Personalities. If the card’s Force is now 0, destroy it. Gain Honor equal to your Personality’s Personal Honor.

 

The Emperor’s Blessing (Diamond y Lotus) Coste: 0; Focus 2 Singular. Limited: Put this card into play in your home. Until it leaves play, your Family Honor is considered 5 points higher for purposes of any player lobbying. Reaction: After you play a Kami card, discard this card from your home: Search your Fate deck for a Kami card. Show it. Put it in your hand.

 

Until I Understand (Diamond y Lotus) Coste: 2; Focus: 3. Kami Open: Play a Ring from your hand. Until it leaves play, the Ring does not count towards an Enlightenment Victory. If the Ring is still in play at the beginning of your second turn from now, discard it. “Neither will I.” –Shinsei

 

Way of the Horse and Bow (Diamond y Lotus) Coste: 2; Focus: 3. Limited: Target a Samurai Personality you control. Permanently give him the Cavalry trait and “Battle: Bow this Personality: Ranged 2 Attack.” Draw a card. Limited: Target a Cavalry Samurai Personality you control. Permanently give him +1F and “Battle: Bow this Personality: Produce a ranged attack with a strength equal to this Personality’s Chi.” Draw a card.

 

Where Gods Have Fallen (Diamond y Lotus) Coste: 0; Focus: 2. Kami Immediate Terrain. Battle: Even if there is a Terrain in play, destroy all other Terrains. While this card is in play, you may take the action “Battle: Destroy this card: Target an opposing player. He discards a card.”

 

Kihos (3)

 

Amaterasu’s Blessing (Diamond y Lotus) Coste: 0; Focus: 4. Kiho Open: Target an unbowed Shugenja or Monk you control: Target a Personality. Until the beginning of your next turn, Personalities you own have a minimum Force and minimum Chi equal to their Personal Honor. This effect is permanent on the target Personalities. The sun neves shone brighter than on the day of Hantei’s coronation.” –Akodo

 

Depths of Jigoku (Diamond y Lotus) Coste: 0; Focus: 1. Kiho Limited: Bow a Shugenja you control: Lose 3 Honor. Permanently give the caster the Shadowlands and Nonhuman traits. Search your Fate deck for up to two Oni cards and/or Shadowlands Followers. Show them. Put them in your hand face-up. At the end of the turn, discard all of those cards still in your hand.

 

Lesson of Thunder (Diamond y Lotus) Coste: 0; Focus: 3. Battle: Target an unbowed Shugenja or Monk you control: Target a non-Unique Personality in the current battle opposed by a Kami Personality, a Thunder Personality, or a Clan Champion. Destroy the non-Unique Personality. “Even gods must bow to destiny.” —Shinsei

 

Spells (5)

 

Eclipse (Diamond y Lotus) Coste: 3; Focus: 2. Limited: Bow this Shugenja: Target a card. Until this Shugenja is unbowed or leaves play, actions on the target may not be used. This Shugenja may remain bowed. “From such wonders are gods born.” –Kakita

 

Isawa’s Scrolls (Diamond y Lotus) Coste: 6; Focus: 4. Unique. After this Spell enters play, put five Scroll tokens on it. Limited: Bow this Spell and remove a Scroll token from it: Search your Fate deck for a Spell with a Focus value less than the number of remaining Scroll tokens. Show it. Put it in your hand. “Can even Isawa defeat my fallen brother?” –Shiba

 

Scribing the Tao (Diamond y Lotus) Coste: 6; Focus: 3. After this Spell enters play, target a Ring in play or in any discard pile. Copy one ability from it to this Spell until this Spell leaves play. (Any cost of bowing the Ring becomes “Bow this card”.) “So much weight placed on the babbling of a simple old man.” –Shinsei

 

Sculpting Flesh (Diamond y Lotus) Coste: 5; Focus: 2. Maho Limited: Bow this Shugenja, who must be a Bloodspeaker, and destroy a Poersonality you control and own: Lose 3 Honor. Create a Shadowlands Nonhuman Goblin Personality card in your home. Set its printed Force and Chi to any values that do not total more than the destroyed Personality’s Gold cost. “Serve me!”

 

Spirit Made Flesh (Diamond y Lotus) Coste: 6; Focus: 3. Limited: Bow this Shugenja: Target one of your Provinces. Search your Dynasty discard pile and Dynasty deck for a Kami card. If you find one, discard a card from the Province and fill it with the found card. The kitsu died, but the Kitsu live.

 

Items (10)

 

Ancient Armor (Diamond y Lotus) +1F / +1C  Coste: 4; Focus: 3. This card has +2F for every full 10 points of Family Honor you have. Reaction: Before the end of a Maneuvers Segment, bow this card: If this unit is opposed, gain 2 Honor. “A samurai is protected by steel and conviction.” –Kaiu

 

Ancient Sword (Diamond y Lotus) +1F / +1C  Coste: 4; Focus: 3. Weapon. This card has +2F for every full 10 points of Family Honor you have. Reaction: After this Personality enters a duel, bow this card: Gain 2 Honor. “A good start.” –Kaiu

 

Bayushi’s Mask (Diamond y Lotus) +1F / +1C  Coste: 8; Focus: 4. Unique. Reaction: After the Cavalry Maneuvers Segment, bow this Personality and destroy this card: Target any number of Personalities you control in battlefields and any number of battlefields. Move those Personalities to those battlefields any way you like. “You cannot trust me.”

 

Broken Sword of the Lion (Diamond y Lotus) +0F / +0C  Coste: 8; Focus: 4. Weapon • Unique. Lose 3 Honor. Dishonor all Lion Clan Personalities you own. Lion Clan Personalities you control have a Force and Chi bonus equal to their Personal Honor. After each time a Lion Clan Personality you control is restored to Honor, gain Honor equal to his Personal Honor.

 

Eye of the Emperor (Diamond y Lotus) +1F / +1C  Coste: 2; Focus: 3. Reaction: After an action targets this Personality, remove this card from the game: If this Personality is a Magistrate, cancel the action. Limited: Destroy this card, or bow it if this Personality is a Magistrate: Target a face-down card. Look at it. “Let each lord have agents to enforce his laws. Let them carry his seal as a badge of office.” –Doji

 

Fu Leng’s Sword (Diamond y Lotus) +4F / +2C  Coste: 7; Focus: 4. Weapon • Shadowlands • Unique. Will only attach to a Shadowlands Personality. Lose 10 Honor. This loss may not be copied or modified. Battle: Bow this card: Give all non-Shadowlands Personalities at this card’s battlefield 1F/ 1C. “The Dark God’s sword sings with the murder of ten thousand samurai.” –Ikoma

 

Golden Mirror (Diamond y Lotus) +0F / +0C  Coste: 8; Focus: 4. Unique. Limited: Bow this Personality and discard a card: Target a face-down card. Name a card type. Show the card. Discard it if it is of the named type. (Cards in hands and decks are face-down. Kihos are Action cards.) “Perhaps these mortals are not without merit.” –Doji

 

Isawa’s Last Wish (Diamond y Lotus) +0F / +0C  Coste: 10; Focus: 4. Inexperienced • Unique. While this card is bowed, all other players have the ability “Open: Once per turn, target a card other than a Wind, a Sensei, or a Ring. Remove it from the game.” Limited: Bow this card: Target a card other than a Wind, a Sensei, a Ring, or a Personality with a card attached. Destroy it.

 

Onnotangu’s Hand (Diamond y Lotus) +3F / +1C  Coste: 5; Focus: 4. Inexperienced Obsidian Hand • Unique. Reaction: After a Personality enters a duel with a Personality you control, bow this card: Target the Personality you don not control. Bow him. “The right to guard the scrolls is mine,” Bayushi swore. “Who among you would deny me?”

 

War Chariot (Diamond y Lotus) +2F / +0C  Coste: 3; Focus: 2. Reaction: Before the end of an Infantry Maneuvers Segment, bow this card: Target a player who controls at least one unit opposing this card. He may bow one of those units. If he does not, gain 2 Honor. “Such devices are clumsy, unseemly for a samurai to use. I will not have them among my armies.” –Akodo

 

Followers (8)

 

Battul (Diamond y Lotus)

4F / 0C

0HR / 6G

Yobanjin Unique. While Battul is unbowed in an army, neither actions on Wind cards nor actions that require discarding the Imperial Favor as a cost may target cards in Battul’s army. “Only a weak man leans on a god.”

Focus: 4

 

Legion of the Kami (Diamond y Lotus)

3F / 0C

1HR / 4G

Legion of the Kami has +1F for each other player who controls a Kami card. “We will show you a new way,” Hantei said. “If you offer us your loyalty, we will build a better world together.

Focus: 3

 

Shinsei’s Legion (Diamond y Lotus)

*F / 0C

1HR / 7G

Unique. After Shinsei’s Legion enters play, set its printed Force to this Personality’s printed Force. Shinsei’s Legion copies this Personality’s Cavalry and Naval traits. These changes last until Shinsei’s Legion leaves play. “Shinsei met Akodo’s challenge, to Hantei’s great amusement.” –Shiba

Focus: 3

 

Souls of the Fallen (Diamond y Lotus)

2F / 0C

2HR / 2G

Spirit. This unit cannot assign to attack unless it contains a Shugenja. Battle: Fear 4, or Fear 2 that also affects Personalities. Shiba gasped when he saw the tormented souls that protected Gisei Toshi. “Our dead also know the meaning of duty,” Isawa said.

Focus: 2

 

Student of the Tao (Diamond y Lotus)

2F / 0C

1HR / 4G

This Personality has the Monk trait while this card is attached. If this Personality has the printed Monk trait, you may bow Student of the Tao instead of this Personality as a cost of casting Kihos. Shinsei was a simple man. Those who followed him were not.

Focus: 3

 

The Lying Darkness (Diamond y Lotus)

0F / 0C

0HR / 6G

Nonhuman    Nothing  Unique. You may attach this card from your hand to a Personality even if you do not control him. (His controller then controls this card.) During each of your Straighten Phases, put two –1C tokens on a Personality you control. Seven Thunders entered the Shadowlands. One returned.

Focus: 0

 

Troll War Band (Diamond y Lotus)

5F / 0C

0HR / 5G

Shadowlands • Nonhuman Lose 3 Honor. While Troll War Band is unbowed in the current battle, you cannot pass. Battle: Bow this card: Give the Province Troll War Band is at –4 Strength. Battle: Bow this card: Target an opposing Follower or an opposing Personality with no Followers. Bow the target.

Focus: 3

 

Wako (Diamond y Lotus)

2F / 0C

0HR / 3G

Pirate • Naval. Will not enter play if you control no Naval Personalities. Battle: Once per battle, target a Gold-producing Holding controlled by the Defender. Raise this card’s Force to the Holding’s printed Gold production. Bow the Holding.

Focus: 3